Improvement in water cut-offs



Patented Aug. 29,1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM PHIPPS, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JAMES D. PIERCE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER CUT-OFFS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,639, dated August 29, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PHIPPS, of Mil- Waukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Water Gut-Offs, of which the following is a speciiication My invention is a cut-oir' for rain-Water from a building to a cistern, or to any other place, and it is changeable, so that when the Water has run into the cistern until it is full it can be changed and have the Water run in some other direction.

Figurel is aperspective View of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a sectional View.

A is the body of the cut-0E; B, the changeable pipe. O is the cover to the changeable pipe When itis turned out. Dis the fastener forthe cover. E is the pivot on which the changeable pipe swings. F is the flange on the pipe B, which iits closely around the pipe-hole in body A when the pipe is swung` out; G, pipe which runs down from the top.

The operation of this cut-off is that when the Water is Wanted to run to the cistern the pipe B is fastened up on the outside, as shown in Fig. l,

and when the Water is Wanted to run in some other direction the pipe B is unloosened from the cover and shoved back into the main body ofthe cut-off, and the fastening-hook is hooked into the loop on the main body below, the inside end of the pipe B litt-ing closely onto the end of pipe G, so that the Water may run in some other direction. This cut-oft' is made round on the back side, so that when put up in the corner of a building it can sit with the pipe pointing in any direction, and a loop may go round the bottom and top of the cut-oft to hold it in position, so that it may be turned in any direction Without uncoupling1 it.

I claim as my invention- A Water cutoff, consisting of body A, change able pipe B with cover G, so constructed as to' hold pipe B up When it is turned out With pivot E on which the pipe B swings, in combination with pipe G, substantially as and for the purpose described.

Witnesses: WILLIAM PHIPPS.

J. B. SMITH, J. D. PIERCE. 

